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Clues To MLS Team In Las Vegas Might Be Found In Sunday’s Sold Out Gold Cup Soccer Match At Allegiant Stadium

July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 Alan Snel Bill Foley, Brett Lashbrook, Don Garber, Mark Davis

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The NHL Golden Knights were born in Las Vegas in 2017. The NFL Raiders migrated

Gold Cup soccer match is set for Sunday at Allegiant Stadium

Raiders Stadium Soccer

COVID and Sports: New Nevada Indoor Mask Mandate Means All Fans At Gold Cup Soccer Match At Allegiant Stadium Will Be Required To Wear Face Coverings Sunday

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Alan Snel Michelle White

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com Well, this should be interesting. The biggest indoor crowd that’s supposed to be wearing masks

Raiders Stadium Raiders Team Soccer

Raiders Give Season Ticket Holders Chance To Buy Tickets For Aug. 1 Soccer Championship At Allegiant Stadium

June 4, 2021 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Las Vegas Raiders have reached out to their season ticket holders to tell them

Las Vegas Lights FC's new logo is released today.

Soccer

New Las Vegas Lights Soccer Team Releases Inaugural Logo, Season Ticket Prices

October 30, 2017 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By ALAN SNEL Las Vegas’ new pro soccer team today released its logo and 20-game season ticket plans, which

Team owner Brett Lashbrook announced the team's name right after midnight today.

Soccer

Light It Up: New Pro Soccer Team Is Named Las Vegas Lights

August 28, 2017August 29, 2017 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By ALAN SNEL It’s official: Las Vegas’ new pro soccer team will be called, “Las Vegas Lights.” Team

Golden Knights Soccer UNLV

LVSportsBiz’s 3 Questions for a Fan: UNLV’s New Logo, Golden Knights Tour, LV’s Soccer Team

August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 Alan Snel

By ALAN SNEL Jim Braun is not just a sports fan. The diehard Washington State Cougars fan also made

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval welcomes a new minor league soccer team in Las Vegas.

Soccer

Cheers, Horns and a New Soccer Team in Downtown Las Vegas

August 12, 2017August 12, 2017 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Brian Sandoval, Carolyn Goodman

By ALAN SNEL The mood inside the Zappos theater at mid-day Friday was super-jovial, a pep rally where even

Minor league soccer team owner Brett Lashbrook (named after former Kansas City Royals baseball star George Brett) recently told the Las Vegas City Council that Vegas is ready for pro soccer. Photo credit: Sam Morris/Las Vegas News Bureau

Soccer

The New Minister of Soccer in Las Vegas Promises a Pro Team with Pizzazz and Flair

July 25, 2017 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook

By ALAN SNEL Brett Lashbrook doesn’t mind that a new NHL team will start later this year or that the

Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Councilman Ricki Barlow, whose district includes Cashman Field, celebrate minor league soccer coming to Las Vegas in 2018. Photo credit: Sam Morris/Las Vegas News Bureau

Soccer

Las Vegas City Council Approves Lease for New Minor League Soccer Team at Cashman Field in 2018

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman, Don Logan

By ALAN SNEL It may not be the Big Leagues of professional soccer, but Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman was

Cashman Field normally is the home field for the Las Vegas 51s baseball team, but it will be converted into a soccer field for the USL team next year.

51s Aviators Soccer

Las Vegas Rebounds from Major League Soccer Defeat in 2015 with new Minor League Club for 2018

July 14, 2017January 31, 2019 Alan Snel Brett Lashbrook, Carolyn Goodman, Don Logan

By ALAN SNEL Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and her husband, Oscar, the former mayor, have dreamed of an NBA

July 5, 2021

Alan Snel, veteran journalist and LVSportsBiz.com publisher. ASnel@LVSportsBiz.com.

LVSPORTSBIZ.COM, launched June 2017: We are a digital magazine providing market-leading news, intelligence, enterprise and breaking news on Las Vegas’ sports/stadium industry. Our stories are quoted nationally and we set the sportsbiz news agenda in Las Vegas. Publisher Alan Snel has reported on the business of sports and stadiums in Denver, South Florida, New York, Seattle and Tampa besides Las Vegas and is considered a national authority on the topic.

Click here for Alan’s recent appearance on KNPR radio in Las Vegas.

BRIEFS

Union deal at Allegiant Stadium: The Culinary Union announces tentative agreement on union contract reached with Oak View Group for 730+ cooks, servers, bartenders, & concessions workers at Raiders-run Allegiant Stadium.

F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Sphere extend deal: F1, Sphere announces new five-year agreement that extends their partnership through 2030, with Las Vegas Grand Prix utilizing Sphere’s exterior campus each year during race week.

The F1 track as it nears the Sphere. Photo credit: Hugh Byrne/LVSportsBiz.com

UNLV’s sports conference — the Mountain West — has a new slogan and “refreshed brand identity.” Built Bold is the “new defining tagline.”

LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

New A’s team president Marc Badain

Marc Badain

LVCVA spends $8.25 million on A’s sponsorship

Big League Sports With Small Town Politics

Man of Many Hats

Athletics’ long, strange journey for new ballpark

How Deal Was Made For A’s Ballpark On Strip

May 24, 2021

LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel is a nationally-known bicycle rights leader and bicycle travel writer.

Alan focuses on reducing road violence and has asked government to enforce road safety laws, design better roads for bicyclists and walkers not just motorists, educate drivers, install more penalties for reckless motorists and lower speed limits.

Here are Alan’s travel story samples, literary adventures based on Alan’s expansive and curious approach to reporting sports-business news and a bicycle life:

Let’s Pedal Zion National Park

Bicycling Bristlecone Trail At 9,000 Feet

Biking magical Seattle and the Northwest

Bicycling the Tour de Stadiums of Las Vegas

Las Vegas bicyclist struck by bullet during memorial ride

Incomparable Grand Canyon by bike

LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel has also written two books: Long Road Back To Las Vegas and Bicycle Man. Purchase Long Road Back To Las Vegas on Amazon and contact Alan to buy Bicycle Man at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com.